Another unique aspect of being here is that many of the roads and parking facilities were developed with a much lower expectation of traffic growth than has played out.  Therefore, you park where you can and everybody seems to be OK with it.  Here are two of my parking jobs today.

Yes, I am parked on the sidewalk.

Here I am up on the "grassy" area by the curb.

Both of these are accepted and very common here.

I have to mention another parking norm for which I do not have a picture. It is that you just stop on the street and turn on your emergency flashers. It seems that turning on the flashers gives you a pass to stop your car just about anywhere. People don't seem to get angry at the resulting inconvenience - probably because we have all done it.